Clonmacnois Parish Newsletter
Sunday 31st Oct 2010 - 31C
Tel (090) 9674125 Fax (090) 9674267
Mass times: Shannonbridge: Weekend, 8pm (Sat), & 12 noon, Sun;
Weekdays, 10am. Clonfanlough – Sunday, 10.30am
Shannonbridge
Masses: Mon 1st Nov: Feast of All Saints - a Holy Day. Mass @ 12noon, for the late Jim & Elizabeth Killeen, & 8pm on Mon; on Tues, All Souls Day, @ 10am & 8pm; Rest of the week @ 10am;
Adoration: on First Fri, after Mass until 5pm
Last Sunday's Offertory collection: €615. Many Thanks
Church Cleaners: J.Kelly, M.Killeen, A.Keena
Eucharistic ministers: Group 3
Readers for next Weekend: Group 5, C.Doolan
Altar Servers for this week: Oisín, Andrea, Stephanie

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Clonfanlough
Mass on Mon, All Saints Day, @ 10.30am,
Mass on Tues, All Souls Day, @ 7pm
Mass on the First Fri @ 7pm, for the late Larry & Brigid Rohan
Mass on next Sun for the late Brigid McEvoy
Last Sunday's Offertory collection: €339. Many Thanks
Church Cleaners: J.Noble, D.Fitzgerald
Readers for next Sunday: D.Boland
Altar Servers for next Sunday: Group B
Eucharistic minister for next Sunday: P.Darcy
Station Mass
On Fri @ 8pm at the home of M. & E. Anderson, Creevagh
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Questions people ask (Fr O’Flynn – Intercom) Q. Recently at a wedding in another church everybody was invited to take communion. But at a Catholic wedding the priest at the start said that only practising Catholics should receive. Isn’t this rather narrow-minded and hurtful? A. Catholic belief is that receiving the Lord in the Blessed Eucharist is the greatest privilege of our religion. The Catholic Church will not water down this doctrine and safeguards it with certain regulations: the recipient must be baptised and not in the state of mortal sin. A period of fasting is recommended as a mark of respect. By upholding these regulations we let others know how sacred the Blessed Eucharist is in our religion.
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November -- A special time to remember our dead
Please put your altar list for the dead in the box on the altar, or in the collection box. During the Month of November two Masses are said each week in the Parish for your deceased.
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Ard Chiaráin Prayer Centre, Rachrabeg
Mass on Thurs eve @ 8pm for the deceased and bereaved.
All welcome.
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Ballinasloe Flower & Garden Club. Fund raising for the St V.de Paul on 10th Nov @ 7.30pm in Gullanes Hotel. – a Flower Arranging demo with Mary Keogh, Aoifa.
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Umbra Clothing Collection for educating poor children in Africa.
Tues 2nd Nov at the Parish Halls in Shannonbridge & Clonfanlough between 9am – 12noon.

Church gate collection for the Irish Heart Foundation next weekend

Table Quiz on next Wed night and every Wed in Killeens @ 9.30pm

“Members of Michaellian Ensemble are asked to attend a practice in St Michael’s Church, Ballinasloe on next Tues @ 7.30pm”